FWIW, I have buster/xfce on a laptop and have the same problem. Backlight is fine. I thought about the external monitor trick, too, but I haven't tried it yet.
--John On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 9:15 AM dekks herton <dekkz...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 11/24, Jaime T wrote: > >Hi all. > > > >I'm running stable (stretch)/xfce on an hp/compaq nx6110 laptop, and > >when the screen blanks, I can't get it to wake up again (nothing > >appears on the screen when I press the keys on the keyboard and move > >the mouse). > > > >The closest debian bug report that I've seen is: > >https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=787241 > > > >although these other (non-debian) bug reports seem closer: > >https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11627 > >https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12480 > >https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=194313 > > > >The laptop is currently sitting there, powered on with a blank screen, > >but I have a load of unsaved work on the desktop. I can ssh into it > >and run commands on it. Does anyone know if there's anything that I > >can do to wake the screen up so that I can save my work? > > > >Thank you, Jaime > > > > Borrow an external monitor to save work? > > Are you sure the backlight hasn't died? > > -- > regards..... > > Thinkpad T60p 2.33Ghz 2GB SXGA+ > > Jabber IM: dekkz...@jabber.hot-chilli.net >
